Love
A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10689754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Mcpherson (0000-0002-4077-441X, Creighton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 678-681 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqaa050 |
| OpenAlex | W3043041929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
Is a new understanding of love really possible? And could it be a convincing one that has somehow been overlooked by previous theories of love? Like its predecessor Love: A History (Yale University Press, 2011), Simon May's Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion is a bold and ambitious book, as suggested by its subtitle. There are a number of interesting and provocative claims advanced throughout the book, some of which one might disagree with, but are eminently worth engaging. However, what is remarkable is that May really does succeed in offering a new understanding of love that captures a key feature of it that has been at best implicit in or only hinted at by previous understandings but not adequately articulated: namely, love seeks ‘ontological rootedness’. Or otherwise stated, through love we seek to be at home in the world. May argues that previous accounts of love
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Key (lock · Linguistics · Philosophy of love · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Subtitle · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |